Daylon Update: Daylon is with his family in Minnesota!  They have started testing and have tentatively scheduled chemotherapy to begin lat....
20 May 4:33 am  from  la fuji mama   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I love tsukemono.  For those of you not familiar with this category of Japanese cuisine, tsukemono can be loosely translated as “pickles....
16 Mar 5:15 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

March 3rd (next week!), is Hinamatsuri in Japan, which literally translates to mean “Doll Festival,” but is often to referred to as Girl....
23 Feb 8:57 am  from  la fuji mama   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Making miso soup consists of 3 steps: 1) Making dashi. 2) Cooking the vegetables, fish, and other ingredients in the dashi. 3) Adding the ....
19 Jan 8:16 am  from  la fuji mama   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I love recipes that use up little leftovers bits of previous meals.  Good examples that I’ve shared in the recent past are kalua pig tac....
19 Jan 8:06 am  from  la fuji mama   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japanese home cooking is all about cooking with what's in season.  Chestnuts are widely used in Japan when in season in a variety of wa....
3 Dec 9:11 am  from  la fuji mama   [Profile]  [Recent]